Hire costumed characters
in Long Island City.
Trained character performers in screen-accurate costumes for retail openings, family days, brand activations, and corporate events with kid-facing components.
NYC corporate character work runs heaviest at Fifth Avenue and Soho retail flagship openings (custom branded mascots and themed performers to anchor the opening crowd), employer-brand family days produced by Manhattan financial and media corporates, and themed performers (period, prohibition-era, noir, sci-fi) for corporate murder mysteries and immersive offsite events at private Tribeca and Meatpacking venues. We staff custom mascots for Javits booth activations, themed performers for Fashion Week brand parties, and IP-safe costumed characters for Citi Field, Yankee Stadium, and Barclays Center family-day brand activations. Most of our NYC character pool is working actors — comfortable on camera and in front of executive audiences. All staff are 100% W-2.
Showcraft serves Long Island City and the surrounding NY area with 100% W-2 talent, full insurance, and senior captains on every event. Long Island City (LIC) is Manhattan-adjacent waterfront Queens — one subway stop from Grand Central, operationally part of our Manhattan dispatch, and increasingly home to media-and-tech corporate campuses (JetBlue HQ, MoMA PS1, the Citigroup tower). The Hunter's Point South / Gantry State Park waterfront drives a heavy summer brand-activation calendar, and the LIC warehouse-format venues anchor a real experiential pop-up run. We staff brand ambassadors and lead-capture for Gantry Park activations, hospitality crews for MoMA PS1 Warm Up summer series and gallery events, demo teams for JetBlue HQ partner days, and warehouse-pop-up crews for LIC creative venues. Bilingual EN/ES with strong Mandarin coverage. All staff are 100% W-2.
- Costumed Characters dispatched anywhere in Long Island City
- 100% W-2 staff, fully compliant
- Comprehensive GL + workers' comp on every event
- COI naming your venue and additional insureds
- Captain on-site for events with 6+ staff
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What kind of corporate events use costumed characters in Long Island City?+
Retail grand openings, brand activations with family-day components, trade show booth attractors, sports promotions, company family days, and corporate holiday parties in New York City. Costumed characters pull foot traffic, anchor photo moments, and add a memorable layer to brand-led events in Long Island City.
What's the difference between a Showcraft character and a Characters.io character?+
Same talent roster, different lane. Showcraft handles the corporate side — brand activations, retail openings, trade show floors, and corporate family days in Long Island City. Characters.io handles consumer and private events. The performers are W-2 employees of the same parent company, with the same vetting and training standards.
Are your Long Island City character performers trained?+
Yes — every Showcraft character performer in Long Island City is a working actor with character-performance training (movement, in-character voice work, photo-pose discipline, guest interaction). They're not random people in costume; they're vetted performers backed by Characters.io's 18-year track record.
Are your Long Island City character performers W-2 and insured?+
Yes. Every character performer Showcraft deploys in Long Island City is a W-2 employee with workers' comp and general liability coverage. We issue COIs naming the venue and additional insureds. In California, the payroll structure is fully AB-5 / AB-2257 compliant.
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